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Found at findagrave.com on 8/12/2023
Rev Matthew Mead
Birth: 7 Mar 1629 Leighton Buzzard, Central Bedfordshire Unitary Authority, Bedfordshire, England
Death: 16 Oct 1699 (aged 70) Stepney, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England
Burial: St Dunstan and All Saints Churchyard, Stepney, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England
Memorial #: 65813428
Created by: Carol Lesch (47092548)
Added: 18 Feb 2011
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65813428/matthew-mead
Citation: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65813428/matthew-mead: accessed 12 August 2023), memorial page for Rev Matthew Mead (7 Mar 1629-16 Oct 1699), Find a Grave Memorial ID 65813428, citing St Dunstan and All Saints Churchyard, Stepney, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England; Maintained by Carol Lesch (contributor 47092548).
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found at http://yeahpot.com/gedcom/meaderichard/pafn03.htm#10755
5. Matthew MEADE , Sr. Reverend
In 1648 Matthew was elected scholar and on August 6, 1649, admitted at Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He resigned in 1651. He then became Morning Lecturer at St. Dunstan's Church, Stepney. He resided in Grace Church Street. In 1656, he became a member of the Congregational Church formed at Stepney by Greenhill in 1644. In 1658, he was appointed by Oliver Cromwell to the "new chapel" at Shadwell (St. Paul's).
From Shadwell, as from his lectureship, he was displaced by the Restoration, but obtained a lectureship at St. Sepulchres, Holborn, from which he was ejected by the Uniformity Act of 1662, for non-conformity. He was a prominent clergyman of the Church of England and a man of very liberal views. In 1682, he was implicated in the Rye House Conspiracy and was imprisoned for sometime. This was a half-heared plan to assissinate Charles II and James II at the Rye House, Huddesdon, Hertfordshire. The Earl of Shaftsbury blamed Arthur, Earl of Essex, Lord Russell and Algernon Sidney. Matthew MEADE was later set free by the King. In 1663, he was living at Worcester House, Stepney. It appears he was in London during the great plague of 1665. Either the Conventicle Act or the Five Miles Act which came into operation in 1666 drove him to Holland for a time. By 1669 he became assistant to Greenhill in Stepney and after Greenhill's death, succeeded him as pastor. In 1674, a meeting house was built for him at Stepney.
During all this he was married and had 15 children.
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